Andreas Harsono
Andreas Harsono has covered Indonesia for Human Rights Watch since 2008. Before joining Human Rights Watch, he helped found the Jakarta-based Institute for the Studies on Free Flow of Information in 1995, and in 2003 he helped create the Pantau Foundation, a journalist training organization also based in Jakarta. A staunch backer of the free press, Harsono also helped establish Jakarta’s Alliance of Independent Journalists in 1994 and Bangkok’s South East Asia Press Alliance in 1998. Harsono began his career as a reporter for the Bangkok-based Nation and the Kuala Lumpur-based Star newspapers, and he edited Pantau, a monthly magazine on media and journalism in Jakarta. In Indonesian Malay, his published books include Jurnalisme Sastrawi: Antologi Liputan Mendalam dan Memikat (with Budi Setiyono) and “Agama” Saya Adalah Jurnalisme as well as in English Race, Islam and Power: Ethnic and Religious Violence in Post-Suharto Indonesia.
Articles Authored
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October 23, 2017
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October 12, 2017
Indonesia’s Supreme Court Upholds Water Rights
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October 8, 2017
Indonesian Police Raid ‘Gay Party’
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September 25, 2017
Indonesia Sends Ominous Signal to Religious Minorities
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September 14, 2017
Indonesia’s Attorney General Rejects LGBT Discrimination
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September 11, 2017
Wrist-Slap for Indonesian Police Killing in Papua
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August 23, 2017
Another Conviction Under Indonesia’s Dangerous Blasphemy Law
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August 9, 2017
Jokowi’s Political Prisoner Problem
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August 7, 2017
The Toxic Impact of Indonesia’s Abusive Blasphemy Law
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August 5, 2017
The Toxic Impact of Indonesia’s Abusive Blasphemy Law
Reports Authored
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“Scared in Public and Now No Privacy”
Human Rights and Public Health Impacts of Indonesia’s Anti-LGBT Moral Panic
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